Fool's Spring, indeed, @ericvancewalton. We have a similar experience leading to our annual joking or pleading with our bushes and flowers NOT to fall for it this year. Of course, they don't listen and every Spring we experience the same thing. Out comes the buds and blossoms and WHAM, it freezes and snows some more.
They seemed to be used to it, though, and come back for more of the same year after year! Hahaha ...
"As I was doing my daily curation today I noticed my Hive reputation score finally hit 80. Yes! I’ve been at a 79 for what seems like a year and a half."
Just getting started, this seems like an amazing accomplishment. Especially when reading it took a year and a half from 79. Congratulations! I would imagine very few get anywhere close to that.
P.S. Here reading my first post from your account, it is intriguing looking at the picture on your profile and then reading you are writing from Minnesota. That profile image is very unlikely to have been taken anywhere near Minnesota, so I would imagine there must be a story behind it. A link is welcome, to read about it, if it has been written and not too much trouble to find it.
We have that same problem here. A few years we've had nearly full grown leaves on the trees and a hard freeze tricked them into believing it was already autumn in May.
Thank you! I've been blogging here so long I don't know what I'd do without it. The platform has changed quiet a bit over the years. It was a very exciting place to be in those early days (2016-2017).
That profile picture is from Sedona, AZ. My wife and I try to spend part of the winter there every year. Eventually we want to buy a small property in or around that area.
Being an amateur gardener, I can only touch on the idea of plants native to an area versus those which have been imported. I would assume ones which can somehow be confirmed as native have adapted to the Fool's Spring conditions in which they not only survive, but thrive.
Had I been asked, as I am familiar with that part of America, I would have guessed either Utah or Arizona. Thank you for the confirmation. Sedona is very well known for that type of scenery. I hope you realize your vision of living there one day!